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Here and there a woraceless fellows; here and there a burgher rin, spite of the toll exacted

"Now that our ood people," said Mount affably, shaking the tin cup; "and the health of that pretty maid who showed her teeth at me Ladies of Albany, if you but knew the wealth of hared in the heart that beats beneath a humble rifle-frock! Eh, Tim? Off with thy coonskin, and sweep the populace with thy courtly bow!"

Murphy lifted his coonskin cap, flourishing it till the ringed fur-tail became a blur Elerson, in a spasm of courtesy, removed the watchman's tricorn as well as his own; the little Weasel backed off, bowing step by step, until he backed past me into the tap-room, followed by the buckskinned crew

"Noatchman, have at thee!" roared Mount, as the sloppy pewters were brought

And the watch, furtive eyes on the landlord, ith true delicacy, looked the other way At that moment Mount espied ht all to their feet

"Death to the Iroquois!" he thundered, "and a health to Captain Renault of the Rangers!"

Every eye was on me; the pewters were lifted, reversed, and e, buckskinned mob; they put ing "Morgan's Men"; they sethands, danced round and round, singing "The New Yorker" and "John O'Bail," until more ale was fetched and a cup handed up to me

"Silence! The Captain speaks!" cried Mount

"Captain?" said I, laughing "I ahter, aht cries of "He doesn't know" "Where's the 'Gazette'?" "Show him the 'Gazette'!"

The stolid landlord picked up a newspaper from a table, spread it deliberately, drew his horn spectacles from his pocket, wiped them, adjusted them, and read aloud a notice of my commission from Governor Clinton to be a senior captain in the Tryon County Rangers Utterly unprepared, du din So in one hand, paper in t'other

"Death to the Iroquois!" they yelled "Hurrah for Captain Renault!"

"Silence!" bawled Mount "Listen to the Captain!"

"Rangers of Tryon," I said, hesitating, "this great honor which our Governor has done me is incomprehensible to an's, a, of Oriska, of Stillwater?--I who have never laid rifle in anger--I who have never seen a man die by violence?"